The plan is to stick with Peter Parker rather than introduce the more recent 13-year-old, half black, half Hispanic Miles Morales who became Spider-Man in the "Ultimate Spider-Man"
storyline. It would also confirm rumors that the studio is going
much younger than previous incarnations, and looking at true teenagers
for the role.

Drew Goddard, who was originally slated to write and direct the Spidey spin-off "The Sinister Six," was considered the frontrunner to call the shots--but is moving on.

The film is reportedly a coming of age tale that is targeting a John Hughes-style
blend of emotion and humor amid the superhero stuff . There's also
said to be plans to tell the story over several films with each
covering a year of high school for Peter Parker who is already been
bitten by that radioactive spider.

Parker is expected to make his first appearance in the MCU in "Captain America: Civil War" which has started filming. Parker's scenes were expected to be shot in June.

El Mayimbe says that the title for the solo film--set for a July 28th 2017 release--may be "Spider-Man: The New Avenger". This would certainly clue audiences in on the direction the series is now headed.

The sports star is said to show up during the key scene of Excalibur getting
drawn from the stone by Arthur. In the film, his
character is a disgruntled knight who "gets a little ticked off when
this other fellow, this upstart, is the one who can free the sword." The site claims that that the scene even features some football/soccer jokes which
suggests the film will boast a pop culture-vibe for this version of the Arthurian legend absent in the other film adaptations.

In the classic tale, Guinevere (“I Origins” actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey)
is the young lover of King Arthur before she later betrays him for the
knight Lancelot. Ritchie’s film is expected to focus on Arthur’s
earliest days. Jude Law is in tipped to play the villain in the project.

Eric Bana is set to play Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur, Bana's role ''isn't the biggest'' but the director and studio suits wanted to get a big name for the part and initially went after Liam Neeson for the role but he passed on it.

Djimon Hounsou's
role of Bedivere is described as a "Merlin-esque figure" who trains and
mentors Arthur in the film. Hounsou takes over for Ritchie's "RocknRolla" star Idris Elba who was also reportedly up for the role but couldn't do it due to scheduling issues.

"Fifty Shades of Grey" and "The Fall" star Jamie Dornan
was previously suggested as a potential candidate, but
his commitment to the steamy sex franchise may have blocked him from
doing the role There's bit of irony here considering Dornan replaced Hunnam in the lead role in Grey after he suddenly left the film.

The plan is to stick with Peter Parker rather than introduce the more recent 13-year-old, half black, half Hispanic Miles Morales who became Spider-Man in the "Ultimate Spider-Man"
storyline. It would also confirm rumors that the studio is going
much younger than previous incarnations, and looking at true teenagers
for the role.

The film is reportedly a coming of age tale that is targeting a John Hughes-style
blend of emotion and humor amid the superhero stuff . There's also
said to be plans to tell the story over several films with each
covering a year of high school for Peter Parker who is already been
bitten by that radioactive spider.

Parker is expected to make his first appearance in the MCU in "Captain America: Civil War" which has started filming. Parker's scenes were expected to be shot in June.

El Mayimbe says that the title for the solo film--set for a July 28th 2017 release--may be "Spider-Man: The New Avenger". This would certainly clue audiences in on the direction the series is now headed.

The 75-issue comic follows Dream (aka. Morpheus), the Lord
of the dream world who is held captive for seven decades by an occult
ritual. Having escaped, his kingdom has fallen into disrepair in his
absence and he sets about changing his old ways - hard for a being who
has been around for billions of years.

Both
big and small screen adaptations of Gaiman's comic have been in
development, but none of them have ever really gotten anywhere despite
some major names being mentioned. The story format would also be tricky
to adapt - the elaborate story arcs too complicated and lengthy to
play out on film, while the dense and rich visual world is too
expensive to produce as a TV series.

The series
features various elements of mythology, horror, historical events and
absurdist humor. Characters include Dream's siblings such as his
gothic punk rocker looking sister Death, his talking animal assistants,
and The Corinthian who has two mouths for eyes and who is immortal

There's still no word as to who might play the lead here.

Appearing at the Guys Choice Awards over the weekend, Gordon-Levitt offered up a status update to MTV saying that progress is happening but taking time:

"It's really good, man. It's slow but steady. It's a
really complicated adaptation because those comics, they're brilliant.
But they're not written as a whole. It's not like 'Watchmen,' which is a
graphic novel that has a beginning, middle, and end. 'Sandman' was
written over the course of whatever - I forget exactly, six or seven
years. One at a time. One little 20-page issue at a time. And to try to
take that and make it into something that's a feature film - a movie
that has a beginning, middle, and end - is complicated."

JGL says that those who go in expecting something akin to
the big action-packed blockbusters that the genre mostly consists of
these days--will be disappointed:

"Big spectacular action movies are generally about crime
fighters fighting crime and blowing sh-t up. This has nothing to do with
that. And it was actually one of the things that Neil Gaiman said to
me, he said 'Don't have any punching.' Because he never does. If you
read the comics, Morpheus doesn't punch anybody. That's not what he
does. It's going to be like a grand spectacular action film, but that
relies on none of those same old ordinary cliches. So, that's why it's
taking a lot time to write, but it's going to be really good."

When the film will go into production is anyone's guess. We do know that the film is NOT part of the DC Cinematic Universe.

Last August we found out that 300 scribe Kurt Johnstad and "Gangster Squad" writer Will Beall
have been hired to pen separate scripts for the solo "Aquaman" movie.
The studio wants to then combine them getting the best version from
the two works.

The DOJ release was delayed a full 10 months for a number of reasons.
As a result, the original release date of July 17th 2015 was no
longer. The studio then targeted a May 6th 2016 release. They
quickly inserted the fantasy Pan into that original slot. The sequel was to go head to head with "Captain America 3" ...Nobody thought that the comic book pics would ultimately share the date--Sure enough DOJ blinked--and will now open on March 25th 2016.

The solo Aquaman comes to theaters July 27th, 2018.

Wan will also call the shots on the big-budget film adaptation of the 1980s anime franchise "Robotech"

Of the two, films "Aquaman" is likely to go first since it is further along.
Wan will oversee the script process .

Studio suit Greg Silverman says of Wan: "The Aquaman film will be a
major tentpole picture for us and James' span of work has proven him
able to take on any manner of project, bringing his incredible creative
talent and unique voice to the material."